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Articles of Confederation
Title: Articles of Confederation
Category: History
Details: Words: 800 | Pages: 3.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States of America.
The Articles of Confederation were first drafted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia
Pennsylvania in 1777. This first draft was prepared by a man named John Dickinson in 1776. The
Articles were then ratified in 1781. The cause for the changes to be made was due to state
jealousies and widespread distrust of the central authority. This jealousy then led to the
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…showed last 75 words of 800 total…The delegates' knowledge concerning government,
both ideal and practical, made the convention perhaps the most intelligent such gathering ever
assembled.
On September 17 the Constitution was signed by 39 of the 42 delegates present. A period
of national argument followed, during which the case for support of the constitution was strongly
presented in the FEDERALIST essays of Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. The
last of the 13 states to ratify the Constitution was Rhode Island on May 29, 1790.
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